Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky

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Prince Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky, portrait by George Dawe

Prince Nikolai Grigorievich Repnin-Volkonsky ( Russian Николай Григорьевич Репнин-Волконский , scientific. Transliteration Nikolaj Grigor'evic Repnine-Volkonskij * 1778 , † January 6 jul. / 18th January  1845 greg. In Jagotin in today's Ukraine ) was a General of the cavalry of the Russian Army .

Life

The son of General Prince Volkonsky , adopted son of Nicholas Repnin , his maternal grandfather, joined the Russian bodyguard , took 1805 as a colonel of the Chevalier Guards in the campaign against the French part, arrived at Austerlitz in captivity and received only after the Peace of Tilsit the Freedom again.

Appointed major general, he was envoy to the Westphalian court in 1809 , in Spain in 1810, but returned to Russia in 1811. In 1812 he joined Count Wittgenstein's army department as the commander of a cavalry regiment and in October 1813, after the Battle of Leipzig, he became governor general in Saxony (viceroy), until he was replaced by the Prussian General Government of the High Allied Powers in November 1814 .

During this period he tried to stabilize and rebuild Saxony. In addition, he was committed to Dresden art and culture with the aim of making Dresden the “center of German art”. Among other things, he commissioned the flight of stairs to the Brühlsche Terrasse , and on his orders, the Great Garden was made accessible to the public. For General Jean-Victor Moreau who was wounded there , he had a monument erected on the nearby Räcknitzhöhe in Dresden .

He then took part in the Congress of Vienna after he had taken part in the campaign against Napoleon in 1815 and was appointed governor of the Poltava governorate in 1816 and a member of the State Council in 1835 .

In 1809 he was elected an honorary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

family

Nikolai was married to Varwara Alexejewna Repnina-Volkonskaya ( Варвара Алексеевна Репнина-Волконская ; 1778–1864), the granddaughter of Kirill Grigoryevich Rasumowski , the last hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks . One of his children was the writer and friend Taras Shevchenko , Varvara Nikolayevna Repnina-Volkonskaya .

literature

  • Joachim Winsmann: The family of Prince Grigorij Semjonowitsch Wolkonsky, pages 43–73; ISBN 978-3-7375-9534-6 (Köhlerbuch Bergisch-Gladbach)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 200.
  2. ↑ entry to Varvara Nikolaevna Repnina-Volkonskaya in Brockhaus and Efron ; accessed on August 3, 2018 (Russian)

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personal data
SURNAME Repnin-Volkonsky, Nikolai Grigoryevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH 1778
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1845
Place of death Jagotin